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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Clinton Global Initiative <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:19 AM Subject: Matt Damon and Wyclef Jean Announce Commitments for Haiti To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] View this email as a web page. Today, President Clinton will announce a number of commitments aimed at helping Haiti recover in ways that will strengthen education, health care, nutrition, and business enterprises, and help people rebuild their lives. A series of hurricanes and tropical storms ravaged Haiti from all sides, flooding roads, destroying homes, closing schools, and leaving many without what little food they had. Highlighted Commitments Include: Wyclef Jean and his foundation Yele commit to provide hot school meals for 14,000 poor children, food for 20,000 families a month, thousands of new agriculture jobs, micro-enterprise grants for 165 small businesses, 36,000 farmers with seed, fertilizer, and training, and implement a broad communications campaign to engage international and local Haitian musicians in the Together for Haiti Campaign. Matt Damon and Frank McKenna of the ONEXONE Foundation commit to raising at least $3 million to support local NGOs working in Haiti. Good Energies Foundation commits to catalyzing the development of renewable energy in Haiti through research, and will support the installation of solar systems for rural health centers at Partners In Health clinics. Habitat for Humanity International will invest $7 million to repair 1,500 homes, build 1,000 new homes, provide financial support and training for 300 tradespersons and micro-entrepreneurs in the low-income construction sector, and train 1,000 families in disaster prevention and mitigation. This announcement is part of the final plenary session featuring closing remarks by President Clinton to conclude the fourth annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. Watch the final session today live via webcast. You can help, too. What will your commitment be? PLENARY SESSION: The Global Impact of Rural Innovation Friday 9/26/08, 9:00 A.M. — 10:00 A.M. Program Participants: Steve Gunderson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Council on Foundations Wangari Muta Maathai, Founder, Green Belt Movement, Kenya Elsie Meeks, President and Chief Executive Officer, First Nations Oweesta Corporation Rick Warren, Pastor, Saddleback Church Muhammad Yunus, Founder and Managing Director, Grameen Bank SPECIAL SESSION: Poverty Alleviation in Unique Environments Friday 9/26/08, 12:00 P.M. — 1:00 P.M. Program Participants: President René Preval, Republic of Haiti Tony Blair, Former Prime Minister, United Kingdom President Ernest Bai Koroma, Republic of Sierra Leone Helene Gayle, President and Chief Executive Officer, CARE USA CLOSING PLENARY Friday 9/26/08, 1:00 P.M. — 2:30 P.M. Summary by President Clinton. Established in 2005 as a project of the non-partisan William J. Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) convenes global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges. Since 2005, CGI members have made nearly 1,000 Commitments to Action valued at upwards of $30 billion to improve more than 200 million lives in over 150 countries around the world. Through past Annual Meetings, CGI has brought together more than 80 current and former heads of state, hundreds of top CEOs and non-profit leaders, major philanthropists, and 10 of the last 16 Nobel Peace Prize laureates. New York Office: William J. Clinton Foundation • 55 West 125th St. • New York, NY 10027 Little Rock Office: William J. Clinton Foundation • 1200 President Clinton Ave. • Little Rock, AR 72201 Did a friend send this to you? Sign up to receive regular updates from the Clinton Foundation. If you no longer wish to receive email from us, please unsubscribe here. -- Don't panic.--HHGTTG, Douglas Adams fivethirtyeight.com, 3bluedudes.com Obama still ahead in EC! http://www.obamapedia.org/ Join us! http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai For the children _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
